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Oh, we'll be back building this coming May when we return to the USA.

We built the subfloor ourselves. Not too difficult compared to the rest of the cabinetry. The Euro door is the best I know that's available in the USA. They're far better ones in Europe, but shipping is pretty high. To me the Wildlands would be ok for warm weather camping and light use. For...

Here's a quick update on our @Bison Overland Campers build. Fortunately/unfortunately our time in the USA is coming to an end and we will be returning the Argentina to continue overlanding with our 1120AF (our home). I'm pretty pleased though with my progress in this build though and am feeling...

Quick update as I gotta get out and continue building. First I want to share this little glamor shot. While traveling across the northern US to Vermont we stopped by Lake Erie for the night at a town pier/fishing access. Not many wild camping options along this route but this one was nice. Now...

One thing about our exhaust. We started out with a side exit in the middle of the truck right after the muffler/silencer. After a couple of years of travel I sort of got tired of all the black soot that was accumulating in that area (a good portion of the air control and filter was there, like...

Yeah, and before the 1120 we lived on a boat for 23 years. At least the boating stuff helped prepare me for the plane stuff 😵‍💫

Ahh... yeah. You see I'm not really right in the head. For years I've wanted to learn to fly. Of course it also means I want to build a plane. I never seem to take the easy route 😃.

Quick update. Oregon was a flurry of hole cutting. 5 windows, 1 marine roof hatch, 1 Maxxfan Deluxe and 1 instant propane water heater. Then we went to Idaho and got distracted 😁. We went airplane camping (truly over land and). Kind of cut into the build (but completely worth it and I wouldn't...

Things just got real! Picked up the new @Bison Overland Campers camper today. Ours is an 8' 3" slide in, 83" wide, 86" tall and a 50" wide floor. We opted for the Euro style door and to cut in our own windows. I just couldn't get my design together in time and I didn't want to miss this June...

Check with https://www.braem.com/, they may have used headlights. Also ebay Germany

Hi, I own an 1120AF and have built a habitat on it and have been living/traveling full time for a bit over 4 years. Having owned this truck now on 2 different continents I would offer this advice. It all really depends on your long term travel plans. If you're staying in North America I would...

We're scheduled on the 20th to pick ours up 😃.

Got word from @Bison Overland Campers (Drew) that our camper shell has now been assembled! They're starting on Monday to install the outside extrusions. Getting pretty excited to see it in person. Since we're still in the "build at a distance" phase I've been busy ordering a bunch of the...

I'm not the thread owner but am currently in process with Drew to get a slide in shell built, and I have to say he has been great to work with.

What??? Don't build an overland truck? After a few years the pain will fade, then if you're really nuts you'll sign up to build a second one (well we are....). I need to get my head examined. Oh, and while building ours I thought that the box would be all square angles, so easy. But everything...

I think that might work. There's cylindrical silencers available, if I sleeved it over some exhaust wrap it might work well. Thanks for the idea.

Well, the "Build from a Distance" is progressing. @Bison Overland Campers has let us know the extrusions have been cut and the panel design is with the panel manufacturer. And our window placement and order has been finalized. I'm actively watching for any sales on the gear we will be needing to...

Although you said no wood, this is what we did in the truck in our avatar. The entire shell is foam cored composite. For most of the interior structural walls we used 30mm honeycomb cored composite panels. Super light and very strong. For most of the remaining it was mostly baltic birch 1/2" ply...

Well quick update. Our new to us F350 was delivered to my mother's house in Florida. She reports that all looked good and one of her neighbors who is familiar with trucks says it looks good. Good to know it is there and waiting for us for when we arrive back to the USA. But even more exciting...

Not sure when this all started. I have had the truck in a few different shops over the last few months. One of them I even had 2 mechanics just looking around for problems. They did find a loose front engine mount then. We go in on Friday for a possible clutch replacement and transmission check...